Example sentences of "she [verb] be [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bartels has been credited with helping Steffi , 23 , over the past two years in which she has been plagued by illness and unhappiness . |
| 2 | Luke plays Pike , a rebel school student who falls in love with Buffy , a cheerleader who discovers she has been chosen by fate to slay vampires . |
| 3 | Suitably armed , the Princess felt confident enough to write a long and detailed rejoinder to her irate father-in-law which effectively spelled out the way she felt she had been treated by husband , the Royal Family and their courtiers . |
| 4 | She had been rejected by co-op boards and insulted by fashion arbiters . |
| 5 | She had been possessed by pride . |
| 6 | She had been honed by pain . |
| 7 | She had been taken by surprise by the suddenness with which the little helicopter had unstuck itself from the landing pad , and the unnerving rapidity of their ascent . |
| 8 | His blue-grey eyes were as cold as a Siberian winter , and Polly felt as though she had been impaled by twin icicles . |
| 9 | In the early days she had been stung by criticism of the way she dressed . |